Safety Engineer

Press Tab to Move to Skip to Content Link

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Safety Engineer

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64310

Shape the Future of Submarine Safety

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Safety Engineer at Devonport, near Plymouth, Devon.

The Role

As a Safety Engineer, you'll be instrumental in supporting projects across the dockyard - from existing nuclear and radiological facilities to the design of brand new infrastructure for the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. You'll help ensure safety critical operations are compliant, effective and future ready. This is a career-defining opportunity to contribute to national defence while growing your expertise in safety engineering and design.

Day-to-day, you'll play a key role in developing and updating safety cases and delivering technical guidance to Plant Managers to ensure safe and compliant safety-critical operations.

• Supporting hazard identification activities through structured reviews, checklists, and inspections.
• Conducting safety assessments using structured and statistical analysis techniques.
• Contributing to the design of nuclear and radiological facilities, ensuring risks are reduced to ALARP.
• Writing and reviewing technical documentation to support safety, compliance, and operational effectiveness.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Safety Engineer:

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrable experience in safety engineering and design.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interface effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience working within safety engineering.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ()

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.